Senate approves Obama pick for surgeon general

Associated Press via FoxNews.com 12/15/2014

The Senate on Monday approved President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve as U.S. surgeon general, despite opposition from Republicans and some Democrats over his support for gun control and past statements that gun violence is a public health issue.

Murthy, 37, a physician at Boston’s Brigham and […]

Common Core Roots Lie in Ties Between Barack Obama, Bill Ayers

Dr. Susan Berry Breitbart.com Big Government 5 Dec 2013

  In an article published on Monday that advocates for Common Core standards, the Associated Press presents what amounts to the typical talking points for supporters when faced with criticism that Common Core is a federal takeover of education.

The standards were created by the National […]

When a government official can publicly state that not having children is a cost control measure …

Anne Backyard Conservative 3/2/2012

…it is a very short step to mandating how many children are appropriate for a woman to have. This is how China got to forced abortions. THAT is a real women’s rights issue.

RCP comment on Womb to Tomb Czarina Kathleen Sebelius. What if some future apparachik decides you too are […]

Administration names official advocate for illegal immigrants

Stephen Dinan The Washington Times 2/7/2012

The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a new “public advocate” charged with listening to immigrants’ concerns about its law enforcement policies — but Republicans said the position amounts to an official mouthpiece for illegal immigrants being deported.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the advocate will “serve as a […]

Patriotic Millionaires for Higher Taxes Turn Out Not to be So Patriotic After All

Rob Port Say Anything 12/27/2011

Recently in Washington DC a group of self-described “rich” and “one percenter” political activists gathered to ask Congress to raise their taxes. The call themselves the Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength. The idea is that they believe they’re under taxed, and want the government to take more from them to […]

The Transnationalism Project: what your children are learning in college

12 December 2011

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The Transnationalism Project at the University of Chicago

Transnational flows of capital, people, information and images are transforming our worlds; they are also challenging researchers to develop new theoretical and methodological practices to study and account for them. The TransNationalism Project takes on this […]

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